Saget’s role in Full House as the squeaky-clean dad Danny Tanner was in marked contrast to his reputation for dirty humour in his stand-up routines. “We’d be sitting in a restaurant when I was about nine years old, and he would say, ‘tonight the specials are cake and c***, and they’re out of cake.” He went on to describe how his dad would tell jokes in order to make him “feel better”. I like to joke that he touched a lot of people, and they’re all pressing charges now.”

“He was able to use humour to help us survive. My dad just ended up with a strange sense of humour and I inherited it and took it to a professional level. “My parents have lost four kids, and we dealt with death and difficulty through odd, sick humour. Just before starting an Australian comedy tour in 2013 he told : “There’s been a lot of death in my family. His death came after the loss of four of his siblings.